This bandit riot lasted only a few days after the thunderous blow of the troops, and now that all the important bandit capitals have been killed, Zhang Chong and Wan Baobang's troops naturally have no need to stay here, and they have all marched towards Kunming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although there are no bandits on this road, the speed of the troops is not slow at all, and they are still in the same hurry as before, because now that the Spring Festival is approaching, it is time for the year-end competition of the students of the martial arts hall.

As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was one of the earliest military academies established in China, in order to maintain the martial fighting spirit of soldiers and select elite talents. Every year, there will be a year-end competition in the martial arts hall, and all the students of the martial arts hall must participate in it. Cadets with outstanding achievements can not only receive generous rewards, but can also be directly appreciated by some current brigade commanders of the Yunnan Army, and they can be reused when they enter the army in the future.

After all, most of the officers in the Yunnan army graduated from here, and they also know the ability of the students from the martial arts, so they are also very concerned about the development of the students in the martial arts, and they all want to recruit the leaders in the martial arts after the year-end competition to enhance the combat effectiveness of their own troops. If they go back late, they will not only miss the big competition in the martial arts hall, but also miss the opportunity to select outstanding students.

Along the way, almost all the troops were on the way, especially Wan Baobang's troops, except for the necessary repairs of the troops, they were always on the road. In contrast, Zhang Chong seemed much calmer, although he was also in a hurry, he was not in a hurry, but he suffered Lu Hai and them, if they couldn't go back this time, they would lose their qualifications to participate in the martial arts competition, and even whether they could successfully graduate from the martial arts hall became a problem.

On this day, when it was almost evening, the troops had already rushed to Yuxi, and it was only one or two hundred miles away from Kunming, Zhang Chong issued an order here, and the troops were camped and repaired on the spot, and they would set off again tomorrow.

"Xiaohai, there are only three days left before the year-end competition, but we are still one or two hundred miles away from Kunming, if we are late, we will lose the qualification for the competition, what do you say?" Li Fan put down the 82 mortar on his body and said.

"Yes, Brigade Commander Zhang is leisurely, Brigade Commander Wan has been on the way, and now it is estimated that they have all arrived in the suburbs of Kunming, and we have only arrived in Yuxi now, and when the time comes, we will miss it, and the company commander must not kill us"? Sun Yang said on the side.

"It's a trivial matter for the company commander to engage us, if we miss the year-end competition, it will be a problem to graduate at that time, and we won't be able to get a graduation certificate, so it's strange if I don't kill my old man when I go back"! Li Fan on the side said with a complaint.

"Your old man is amazing, my old man is even more powerful, when I was in the military school, he said that if he couldn't get his graduation certificate, he wouldn't recognize me as a son"! Sun Yang echoed on the side.

Lu Hai frowned and said, "Don't worry, we can catch up"!

"We are indeed still far away from Kunming, and Brigade Commander Zhang's march is very slow, how can we catch up"? Chen Liang questioned.

"We don't have to worry about not being able to graduate, and we don't have to worry about having nowhere to go after graduation, don't we already have a place to go now?" Lu Hai smiled faintly.

"What do you mean by that? We're here temporarily, and we're all students who haven't graduated, so how did we have a place to go?" Li Fan said.

"What he means is that the reason why Brigade Commander Zhang is not in a hurry is because he already has the trainees he wants, so he is not in a hurry, and we naturally don't have to be in a hurry"! Zhao Jianying, who had always been silent, looked at Li Fan with disdain on his face and said.

"That's it, have you forgotten Brigade Commander Zhang's behavior of going to the Wutang to select us? Thousands of students stood up for us, and now we are still in his army, the reason why he is not in a hurry is that we have become the soldiers he is destined to be, so naturally there is no need to hurry, he still has to rush back, and someone in the province will rob him"! Lu Hai said.

"Oh, I see, so even if we don't participate in this competition, it's okay"? Li Fan said excitedly.

"In complete darkness, you can fire two shots in unison just by relying on the coordinates we give you, and blow up the bandit leader in succession. And it didn't hurt a civilian or his own brother, even many veterans may not be able to do this ability, do you think Brigade Commander Zhang will let you go and let other brigade commanders rob you"? Lu Hai said with a smile.

As soon as Li Fan heard Lu Hai's analysis, especially when he heard that some old gunners might not be as good as him, the smug expression on his face overflowed, and he said to himself: "This is natural, I am also a top-notch existence in our artillery company, just two bandits, only I know their coordinates and they will definitely die!"

"If you don't brag, you're going to die? Who was sweating and nervous to death?" Sun Yang said jokingly on the side.

"I'm in a cold sweat, I'm hot, it's too hot to sweat what's weird"! Li Fan blushed and argued.

Sun Yang laughed and said, "It's hot? Now it's going to be the Spring Festival, and the temperature has dropped like this, you say it's hot? If you're nervous, just say it, we don't make fun of you, haha...

"Haha..."

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The night passed like this, and when it was dawn, the troops began to pull out, but the speed was still not too fast, and the whole four days of kung fu only came to the suburbs of Kunming.

On the hillside on the outskirts of Kunming, the gunfire is neat and dense, but some of the students of the martial arts hall are holding shooting competitions here, some instructors are holding the roster to record the results, under the slopes of the other two places, the trainees of the engineer company are in full swing to build fortifications, and the slopes are soon dug out by the sappers a trench nearly two meters wide, the trenches are connected with each other, the first two trenches look very hard after being reinforced by stones and trees, and the traffic trenches are spacious and deeper, Even if two soldiers passed side by side, they would not look crowded and would not show their body parts, and there were also holes in the earthen walls of the third line of defense to prevent artillery, and all of them were hung with water-stained grass curtains.

At this moment, in a mountain depression a few kilometers away, rows of brand-new 82 mortars were neatly placed here, just after the engineer unit withdrew, in the artillery company commander's order, many trainees loaded shells into the run, and in the sharp whistling, a shell smashed on the position just built.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

......

In the sound of dense explosions, the small hillside turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and the earth and rocks flew and roared continuously, so you can imagine what the result would be if someone was on this position!

After some shelling, the commander of the artillery company shouted: "Stop the shelling, let's go and see the effect of your shelling now"!

At the same time, the company commander of the engineer company said: "Let's go, let's go and see if the position you built has completely collapsed after the shelling!"

When the two teams of trainees came to the position, they saw that one or two lines of defense on the position had been partially bombarded by mortar shells, and there were even some dense craters, and although the traffic trenches behind the defense line were collapsed in some places, they were not much damaged, and although the third line of defense was somewhat damaged, it was only blown up one or two cat ear holes, and most of them were not damaged, and the artillery company commander looked at the position in front of him and said angrily: "Waste, it's all waste!" What use do you want from a base bombardment that can't even gnaw down a third of the enemy's army"?

The engineer company commander on the side looked at the position in front of him and scolded angrily: "How many times have I told you, the reinforcement and reinforcement of the forward position, you take it as a deaf ear, just a base bomb will bomb your forward position into ruins, if this is on the real battlefield, before you withdraw the rear line of defense will have turned into ashes"!

In the face of the angry scolding of the two company commanders, the cadets all stood aside with serious faces, but they smiled bitterly in their hearts, no matter how fierce the bombardment of the fortified position under the artillery bombardment, there were always casualties, and no matter how fierce the bombardment of the enemy on the position would not necessarily be all killed, but in the face of the two company commanders who had been vindictive, what else could they say"?

At the same time, in the open space on the outskirts, about two companies of cavalry companies are divided into companies, riding war horses, holding wooden sabers to impact each other and slash and kill, but seeing the horse's hooves stir up a large piece of dust, the shouting of killing is deafening, from time to time someone is cut and withdraws, this cavalry confrontation lasted for several hours before the winner was divided, but the strength of the two teams is not much different, although one side will be completely annihilated, but the winner is not good, the rest is only three or four people, and all of them are injured, it can be said that the outcome of both defeats.

The first day of the competition has also come to an end for the time being, and those with good results have been recorded and selected to prepare for the next day's competition, but the current team is no longer a simple comparison and combination, but the infantry, engineers, and artillery are combined into a combat group to compete with each other.

On this day, Zhang Chong's troops finally arrived in the suburbs of Kunming in the evening, and it was only more than ten miles away from the troops of the competition.

"Did you report to the chairman, old man?" Zhang Chong said.

"The two of us have worked together for so many years, don't you know who I am? This should be done by Brigade Commander Wan, Lu Hai and Chen Liang were personally sent to the martial arts hall by him, but he has always treated Lu Hai and Chen Liang as his future subordinates to cultivate, how can I give them to you for nothing"! Wang Bingzhang analyzed.

"Wan Baobang really took the trainees of the army as private property? What he sent in must be his?" Zhang Chong slapped the table and said angrily.

Wang Bingzhang said with a smile: "I don't know if he took the students as private property, but you, you want to recruit them directly without passing the exam, this behavior is not authentic enough!"

"What the hell? These boys are all in the same temper as me, they don't even think about it"! Zhang Chong said in a blink of an eye.

"But where is the chairman's explanation, the chairman already knows the news we have here, don't you want to disobey the order?" Wang Bingzhang said.

Zhang Chong's face was entangled for a while and he said: "Damn Wan Baobang, he actually moved the chairman to press me, forget it, I'll let them go, they just happened to be a team, I now know their courage, now I will test their combat effectiveness on the spot"!